The Victorian Mirror Of History
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The Victorian Mirror of History. A. Dwight Culler. Yale University Press. 1985. First edition. 320pp. Hardback, with dust jacket (in Good condition overall ; jacket is complete, though with minor wear marks and small creases on the covers ; otherwise, clean and complete) Written by A. Dwight Culler, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Yale University, the book's focus is Victorian cultural life and the key people, events and debates of the times. It explores the use of history as a reference and mirror to reflect the present and describe the era's intellectual journey through the 'Victorian Renaissance', in art, literature, religion and science. Among leading Victorian figures it describes are Scott, Macauley, Arnold, Ruskin, Browning and the Pre-Raphaelites. With a Preface, detailed notes and references on each chapter, and regarded by one reviewer as 'An impressive exercise of critical scholarship ... evincing a magisterial command of both primary and secondary sources'
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